Comments on: Congressional Republicans Face Crisis

Washington Post: After String Of Special Election Losses, Party Leaders Seek To "Re-Brand" Message

[krisd999-2009]

I am a card carrying Republican and I can see the deep division in the party bordering on hatred between the libertarian limited, small government pro liberty group (Ron Paul) and the big government pro war, pro subsidies and welfare group (McCain). I am glad to see the FASHIST faction lose. Ron Paul won his primary against a fasist challenger with 70% of the vote. The Republican voters elsewhere are still ignorant what is going on and can not distinguish between the two diametrically opposed factions. They just don''t know what kind of Republican they are voting for. Since most of what the public has been getting is the fasist- good riddance. To have a free republic, you have to get rid of the bread and cicuses and the empire.

[cfin5]

Everyone''s eyes are on the "CONSTITUTION" guys. Just take us back to why we are proud to be Americans in the first place. It''s what us regular Americans expect from both parties.......BACK TO THE CONSTITUTION!

[foranc]

SCREW the Republicans, the American citizens are facing a crisis and it''s the Republicans'' fault for enthroning Bush and his crew of morons!

[ricknuber]

"Nuber you hit me with a low blow, calling me a republican. Those are fighting words. Since I am a pacifist I will shake it off."
Posted by zerato at 04:11 PM : May 15, 2008

-sigh-
Ok, point conceded. I apologize for calling you a Republican. That was WAY over the line of me, and I retract the statement.

[r9119111]

Never Again!

[zerato-2009]

Nuber you hit me with a low blow, calling me a republican. Those are fighting words. Since I am a pacifist I will shake it off.

I was not aware that I took a class called "anecdotal leading indicator of the general political humor" If I new I was attending I would have gotten a C+, if i could have figured out what it was about.

[stn_sage]

Hey stn_sage : They don''''t need a " SLOGAN" like Democrats do- this ain''''t HIGH SCHOOL but it sure sounds like some of them never grew up/
Posted by jack3213 at 02:40 PM : May 15, 2008
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My response: Well, Jack---maybe you want to call them up and let THEM know that! THEY think they need one!

Obcourse, if they''d spent the last several years taking responsible action(s), instead of *** over America and other countries, too---they wouldn''t be in their current domestic political jam! Would they?! Getting kicked out of office is the least they deserve!

[ricknuber]

"Nuber At least cleste did not contact your parents to get an opinion as you did."
Posted by zerato at 03:56 PM : May 15, 2008

ZING!

I know you "Family Values" Republicans abhor intellectual discourse with your family, (or anyone else) but do try to understand that some of us speak with our families a few times a week.

I was using it as an anecdotal leading indicator of the general political humor...dunce.

D+
See me after class.

[zerato-2009]

Nuber At least cleste did not contact your parents to get an opinion as you did.

clap clap clap

[ricknuber]

Posted by clestes at 03:49 PM : May 15, 2008

Was that just off the top of your head? Dang...

-clap clap clap clap clap-

[hober_mallow]

"What we''ve got is a deficiency in our message..."

What, half-billion dollar deficits and phony wars the U.S. can neither win nor quit?

Or is the Republican message merely anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage?

What ever happened to 2004''s Republican ''Contract with America''?

[clestes-2009]

to continue...

They are totally disgusted by their party and feel abandoned and betrayed. Result, they vote democratic or don''t vote at all.

All one has to do is look at the last 3 special elections in Louisiana, Illnois and just this week Mississippi to see the results. Democrats are winning in traditionally republican districts. Districts that have been republican strongholds for 50 years, no less!

What is a mystery to me is why the party leaders didn''t see this coming. What did they think 2006 was, a fluke?? Were they really so blinded by their egos and so out of touch with their voters that they did not realize that they were alienating the rank and file of their party with every passing month??

Why a blind man could have read the signals of discontent a mile away. Why didn''t they?

[clestes-2009]

The truth here is really very simple. When shrub went to the whitehouse in 2000, the republican party had both houses of congress and the whitehouse, and instead of devoting itself to implementing traditional republican ideas and values, it allowed itself to be taken over by a small, power hungry vocal minority, who cared NOTHING for the traditional republican values and had its own agenda. An agenda that consisted of 2 things, protecting Israel and stealing middle east oil.

With the unfortunate combination of an arrogant, easily manipulated president and a vice president who is a past master at manipulating, this minority, which consisted of rabid Zionists and militant pro-Americans who saw America''s place as one of global domination, through Cheney took the whole country down a path that had NOTHING to do with core republican values.

Add a bunch of crooks like Tom Delay, a few weirdo''s like Mark Foley and 7 years time and you end up with a party that has completely lost touch with itself and more importantly its voters.

When a traditional republican voter looks at what their party has done to this country with its fiscal irresponsibility, not to mention moral irresponsibility, and they only rep candidate promises more of the same irresponsibility, it is no mystery to me why the number of republican voters shrinks every month.

[ricknuber]

My Dad (R-IL) has been a lifelong republican. My Mom (D-IL) is a lifelong Democrat. Neither is remotely happy about their party''s current state or choices.

We need a full staff turnover in our government.

[prairiefox1]

THEY CAN HAVE MORE SHAM HEARINGS WITH BIG OIL TO DECEIVE THE PUBLIC AND CONTINUE WITH THEIR OWN INTEREST INSTEAD OF THE PUBLICS WELFARE FOR WHAT THEY WERE HIRED FOR!

[lovegetpeace]

Dear Nov-4 Voters,
Ballot Instructions:

Enter your vote in all lines that have DEMOCRATIC PARTY on it all the way down the ballot. Do not worry about the name next to it.

[zerato-2009]

The republicans have not had any new ideas since teddy roosevelt. Whatever the "change" will be it will have the words "lower taxes", "liberal congress" and "tax and spend liberals". Many robots of the republican party has ran successfully with only these phrases. Why would they change now?

[lovegetpeace]

Folks,
Now, I truely love president Bush for all his Idiot Policies. Yes, president Bush is the greatest president ever for Democrats.

If there is a NeoCons out there who is considering suicide, please seek professional help asap before it is too late.

[culturechang]

As they should face crisis. All they have done is make messes and display hypocrisy....while attempting to tell us how to live.

[moneymcbush]

We all owe george bush a big thank you, for destroying the republican party.
Mission Accomplished.